In 1796, choreographer Charles Didelot made dancers fly across the stage, hunging from invisible wires in his ballet Flore et Zéphyr. However, what really dazzled the audience was that probably for the first time, women actually danced on pointe.

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* Image: Maria Taglioni in Zéphyr et Flore (around 1830-35). Didelot himself re-named his ballet in 1808, after his last staging of the piece in St. Petersburg for the French dancer Louis Duport.